MLB 2026 (3 Viewers)

[mikemiller1955]

I've watched bits and pieces of RS games, but no, I have less than zero interest in baseball this year as of now.

The RS ownership does not care about winning a WS, so why should I invest my time in watching the team?

If they don't care and are just using Fenway Park as their personal ATM, then I don't care either.

Astros have lost 6 games in a row...
blown huge leads in several of those games...
Hunter...Javier and Hader are on IL...2 starting pitchers and their closer...
right now...I'm not real enthusiastic about watching them...flipping channels...
still watching some...but reruns of The Golden Girls or reruns of Young Sheldon seem more interesting...

 

[Panzer ace]

RIP Phil Garner.

Before he was a great manager he was also a great infielder who won a World Series in 1979 with the Pirates.

He also had a great Pittsburgh related nickname, “Scrap Iron”.

 

[jazzeum]

RIP Phil Garner.

Before he was a great manager he was also a great infielder who won a World Series in 1979 with the Pirates.

He also had a great Pittsburgh related nickname, “Scrap Iron”.

He died of pancreatic cancer. It’s a very hard cancer to beat. My former boss died of this type of cancer in his 50s.

 

[Combat]

Astros have lost 6 games in a row...
blown huge leads in several of those games...
Hunter...Javier and Hader are on IL...2 starting pitchers and their closer...
right now...I'm not real enthusiastic about watching them...flipping channels...
still watching some...but reruns of The Golden Girls or reruns of Young Sheldon seem more interesting...

Maybe they will turn things around by stealing signs again. That seemed to work. Just kidding. Hopefully the thread isn't closed.

 

[Panzer ace]

MLB does such a great job with Jackie Robinson Day.

 

[Panzer ace]

Mason Miller is a ridiculous closer, batters are 1-29 against him.

 

[Panzer ace]

The Dodgers lost their closer, Edwin Diaz to injury.

Everyone cared for about 5 minutes.

They probably have a future hall of fame reliever in their farm system.

 

[Warrior]

The Dodgers lost their closer, Edwin Diaz to injury.

Everyone cared for about 5 minutes.

They probably have a future hall of fame reliever in their farm system.

Or they'll go out and buy one, sign him to a 300 million dollar contract and spread it out over 3,000 years.

MLB has a 26 man roster limit, you can only have 13 pitchers; the Dodgers have Ohtani, who's a pitcher and a DH, but a DH "first", so he does not count as a pitcher, so they actually have 14 pitchers on their roster.

So cool to see a struggling franchise like the Dodgers being able to work the rules in their favor, good for them, they really need a break, that franchise lives a hardscrabble existence and needs every break they can get, fair is fair.

 

[Combat]

The Dodgers lost their closer, Edwin Diaz to injury.

Everyone cared for about 5 minutes.

They probably have a future hall of fame reliever in their farm system.

With all the crying about the money the Dodgers have spent, their farm system has brought along some very good players. Also nice to see Max Muncy return to form. His injury limited him for a couple of years. He had a huge HR in game seven of the WS. Injuries are a killer, though. And the Dodgers are not deep in the bullpen. Their Achilles heel last year.

 

[Panzer ace]

Can anyone explain why the Mets are so terrible?

 

[Warrior]

Can anyone explain why the Mets are so terrible?

Not sure, but I can tell you why the Red Sox are so terrible; it's because they suck.

 

[jazzeum]

Can anyone explain why the Mets are so terrible?

See George’s comment.

More seriously, they lost Nimmo and Alonso, two of the mainstays of the team and they have a lot of transitional players while players on the farm are developing. There aren’t a lot of great players there.

Stearns, the GM, is not an Alonso fan and didn’t see paying him a lot of money for several years. Alonso is off to a very slow start so maybe he was right.

Nimmo is harder to figure out. There were rumors that he was traded because he and Lindor had political differences. Yes, you read that right. Nimmo is from what I heard a Trump supporter and Lindor more liberal. If that is true, that’s just crazy. People need to get along with each other. I was not happy because I love Nimmo, always have. Don’t care about politics, just results. I would have traded Lindor because they traded McNeil since Lindor and McNeil never got along.

On top of that, Soto is a private person and doesn’t mix well with his teammates so it’s not exactly a great situation.